Bhutan at the Olympics

Bhutan at the Olympic Games

Flag of Bhutan
IOC code  BHU
NOC Bhutan Olympic Committee
Websitebhutanolympiccommittee.org
Olympic history
Summer Games

The Bhutan Olympic Committee was formed in 1983 and recognized by the IOC the same year.

The first Summer Olympics that Bhutan participated in was the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. For each Summer Olympic Games from then until 2008, Bhutan was only represented by archers. Archery is the national sport of Bhutan.[1] The first non-archer to compete for Bhutan was Kunzang Choden in the 2012 Olympics. She competed in the women's 10m air-rifle event. [2] The 2012 Bhutan team contained no men.[3] Bhutan has never won an Olympic Medal. In spite of the fact that Bhutan is very mountainous, it has never competed in the Winter Games.

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games

Games Athletes Sports Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
United States 1984 Los Angeles 6 1 0 0 0 0 –
South Korea 1988 Seoul 3 1 0 0 0 0 –
Spain 1992 Barcelona 6 1 0 0 0 0 –
United States 1996 Atlanta 2 1 0 0 0 0 –
Australia 2000 Sydney 2 1 0 0 0 0 –
Greece 2004 Athens 2 1 0 0 0 0 –
China 2008 Beijing 2 1 0 0 0 0 –
United Kingdom 2012 London 2 2 0 0 0 0 –
Total 0 0 0 0 –

See also

References

  1. ↑ Bhutanese Traditional Archery.
  2. ↑ Olympics-Bhutan is happy to be one of smallest nations at Games, Reuters.
  3. ↑ Bhutan 2012 team.

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, March 22, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.